Hi I just wanted to share my experience.I am extremely claustrophobic, therefore when I was told I needed a breast Mri to double check there were no other tumours other than the one they found.The reason being my mammogram is what they call mammogram occult.In other words my cancer did not show,only with an ultrasound and biopsy.So I went for my breast Mri today,trying to keep calm,I will say visualising a lovely memory certainly helped.I was shown into the room,I had a cannula inserted into my arm so the contrast could be administered.I then went in for my Mri,I was asked if I wanted pillowor headrest,ie like you have at a massage so face in bit obviously head supported.With the head rest you could have headphones and low and behold hospital had Spotify so I chose fatboy slim
.I laid down put my face in closed my eyes and 25 minutes later was told scan all done.Trufuthfully hardest part was not dancing to the Funks your brother
.The reason I'm sharing is to try and reassure anyone who is feeling panicked,honestly please try not to Obviously this is only my experience xx
Thank you for sharing .. The 1st. mri I had was was about 15 years ago , it was for my neck, so I was looking up at the top of the scanner and I found that really claustrophobic.
i felt that as I was looking down on the breast one , it wasn’t as bad .
i asked for Smooth radio and I got Radio 4 plays !!
Fingers crossed you get results soon x
KLF,yes I agree I think would have been harder for myself if I was looking up not down.Ha ha I bet you were like what is this.Thank you xx
I wasn't even offered music for mine. The noise was horrible. Not what I was expecting noise wise . I felt quite sick and head was pounding by the time I was done. Mine was for my tummy as they were getting the fat from there for my reconstruction. So I didn't need it for my breath as was getting a mastectomy.
I was comfortable lying on the table though. Just the noise was horrible
I think it depends where you go . I didn’t have anything for ny 1st MRI
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